Sounds like your new ISP may be blocking access to Port 119, Ibex.
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Ibex wrote:
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> Thanks for response, Nightowl.
>
> "Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:lsDiPUGS1RVIFwEq@xxxxxx | Quote: | | | |
>> Hello Ibex
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>>> I talked to the ISP customer services people at their head offices but
>>> they don't appear to understand the problem. I explained that Newsgroups
>>> connect to a Network News Transfer Protocol (NNPT) using exclusively
>>> port
>>> 119 and the ISP is most likely blocking this from executing.
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>> You didn't say where you were getting your newsgroup access from -- I
>> mean
>> from which server. Were you using one provided by your ISP, or had you
>> subscribed to a service from a third-party provider and were trying to
>> connect to its NNTP server? | | | | | >
> I access Newsgroups using Windows Live Mail as Newsreader and
> msnews.microsoft.com as News Server and also use other News Server using
> the
> same News Reader; My ISP did not provide these.
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>> If as you say the ISP didn't seem to know much about newsgroups, it
>> sounds
>> likely they're simply not providing a news server, or have stopped doing
>> so. Many don't these days. | Quote: | | | |
>>>
>>> I even provided pertinent links and information, but it seems that all
>>> this is either not read or just not understood and appreciated.
>>>
>>> Since I am not a techie, could somebody please help me out here and
>>> advise
>>> if my technical reason is sound or need to be refined. Or, if I am
>>> wrong
>>> and the reason for not being able accessing newsgroups lies somewhere
>>> else
>>> and/or should be communicated (technically) differently.
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>> Can you give us more information? Like name of ISP, name of the news
>> server you were trying to connect to, etc. | | | | | >
> The name of ISP is MaxNet. The names of News Server are:
> msnews.microsoft.com
> news.aioe.org
> and
> privatenews.microsoft.com
> The name of News Reader is Windows Live Mail. | Quote: | | | |
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>>> And, is it possible to perform some kind of test in order to provide
>>> evidence that the fault lies with the ISP and is not related to the
>>> settings of my operating system. I then could hopefully get the ISP
>>> either
>>> to fix the problem or get them to release me from my subscription
>>> contract
>>> without incurring any penalties.
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>> Try setting your news program to access this group:
>> (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) from the server msnews.microsoft.com
>> . If that works, then there's no "blocking" being done and the problem
>> may
>> be that you've been trying to connect to the wrong news server or a
>> non-existent one. | | | | | >
> See above responses. The blocking occurs only when using MaxNet ADSL
> connection. The blocking does not occur when using dial-up connection from
> a
> different ISP. This is only a recent occurrence, I used to be able
> accessing Newsgroups with MaxNet until about 3 weeks ago. | Quote: | | | |
>>
>> Let us know what you find out :-)
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06-15-2008
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